Taskbar properties script

I need a script to perform the following functions:

Open taskbar properties
Check Auto-hide the toolbar
Click Apply
Uncheck Auto-hide the toolbar (to return to previous condition)
Click OK (to close the properties)

I want to have on my desktop a shortcut to the script file so I can
easily perform these actions.

The reason for this that I have the taskbar on the top of the screen,
and when by mistake I open the magnifier, all the maximized windows
extend to the top of the screen under the taskbar, until I perform these
actions or restart windows.

Please help!

emf

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emf wrote:
I need a script to perform the following functions:

Open taskbar properties
Check Auto-hide the toolbar
Click Apply
Uncheck Auto-hide the toolbar (to return to previous condition)
Click OK (to close the properties)

I want to have on my desktop a shortcut to the script file so I can
easily perform these actions.

The reason for this that I have the taskbar on the top of the screen, and
when by mistake I open the magnifier, all the maximized windows extend to
the top of the screen under the taskbar, until I perform these actions or restart windows.

Please help!

emf

Www.ptfb.com

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emf wrote:
I need a script to perform the following functions:

Open taskbar properties
Check Auto-hide the toolbar
Click Apply
Uncheck Auto-hide the toolbar (to return to previous condition)
Click OK (to close the properties)

I want to have on my desktop a shortcut to the script file so I can
easily perform these actions.

The reason for this that I have the taskbar on the top of the screen,
and when by mistake I open the magnifier, all the maximized windows
extend to the top of the screen under the taskbar, until I perform these
actions or restart windows.

Please help!

emf


It sounds like the real request, is to disable the Magnifier.

Apparently some multi-button mice, have a side button that
is bound to the Magnify option. And some touchpads have
a "hot spot" with the same function.

http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials...e-disable.html

If memory serves, the Ease Of Access center is a PITA to use.
And stuff that you should be able to control, tends to have
a mind of its own. (That's why some people have been
using System Restore, to go back to a point in time where
it wasn't triggering on them.)

Perhaps, rather than write a script like your above description,
it would be better to work on the Ease Of Access issue.

Removing magnifier.exe would cause Windows File Protection
to put it back. Copying a file and renaming it probably
wouldn't work, because the signature or checksum would
be different.

The answer here by Richard Wyatt might work... At least
one user didn't report the thing coming back via
Windows File Protection. But if you were to do a
SFC /scannow, you might bring it back by accident.

http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/w...c-fb42f23647b7

"Richard Wyatt replied on May 26, 2010

I was able stop magnifier from automatically launching
(Via WinKey plus "+" or "-") by renaming magnifier.exe
to magnifier_disabled.exe in the system32 directory.

In order to rename the file as a normal user, you will
need to "Take Ownership" of the file first. Right-click
the file and go to Properties, Security (tab), Advanced
(button), Owner (tab), and choose to make yourself owner.

You will then be able to change the file's permission and
give yourself full control of the file. Only after you've
done all this, you will be able to rename the file.

I literally JUST did this, so i don't know if Windows File
Protection will automatically revert this file back on it's
own... but for now it's working."

It might also be possible to disable it with GPEDIT
or SRP (Software Restriction Policy), but that's outside
my pay scale.

HTH,
Paul

On Fri, 01 May 2015 08:07:53 -0400, emf wrote:

I need a script to perform the following functions:

Open taskbar properties
Check Auto-hide the toolbar
Click Apply
Uncheck Auto-hide the toolbar (to return to previous condition)
Click OK (to close the properties)

I want to have on my desktop a shortcut to the script file so I can
easily perform these actions.

The reason for this that I have the taskbar on the top of the screen,
and when by mistake I open the magnifier, all the maximized windows
extend to the top of the screen under the taskbar, until I perform these
actions or restart windows.

You don't have to restart Windows. Open Task Mangler
(Ctrl+Shift+Esc), and on the Processes tab right-click explorer.exe
and End Process. Then File*» Run and type explorer.

I have to restart explorer every couple of days when it forgets my
Start Menu shortcut key combinations, or puts up a tooltip that
doesn't disappear when it should, or says my USB stick is in use and
won't let me eject it cleanly.

The restart is not as convenient as the script you're asking for --
and I don't know a simple way to create that -- but it's a lot better
than restarting Windows.

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http://OakRoadSystems.com
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On 2015-05-01 17:39, Paul wrote:
emf wrote:
I need a script to perform the following functions:

Open taskbar properties
Check Auto-hide the toolbar
Click Apply
Uncheck Auto-hide the toolbar (to return to previous condition)
Click OK (to close the properties)

I want to have on my desktop a shortcut to the script file so I can
easily perform these actions.

The reason for this that I have the taskbar on the top of the screen,
and when by mistake I open the magnifier, all the maximized windows
extend to the top of the screen under the taskbar, until I perform
these actions or restart windows.

Please help!

emf


It sounds like the real request, is to disable the Magnifier.

Occasionally I use the Magnifier (though more often I use OneLoupe
and/or NegativeScreen, programs I've found on the net), so I'd rather
not disable it. Besides the issue arises from time to time only, not
*too* often.

"Richard Wyatt replied on May 26, 2010

I was able stop magnifier from automatically launching
(Via WinKey plus "+" or "-") by renaming magnifier.exe
to magnifier_disabled.exe in the system32 directory.

It took me some time before I identified how I caused the Magnifier to
come up, and it was exactly what is described above; instead of pressing
Ctrl + to magnify a webpage, I'd press WinKey +, which brings up the
Magnifier and increases the magnification. This would be a nice shortcut
if it would work *only* when the Magnifier is already running, *not*
bring it up when it isn't, but I guess that would be even more
complicated to ask.

So I'd prefer a script as I described, or, even better, one that will
also toggle the Magnifier: close it when it's on, or turn it on when it
is closed, and then run the rest of the script in both cases. Such a
script, associated with a keyboard shortcut, would be very useful and
would make me opt to use the magnifier more often, since I wouldn't have
to consider that after using it I'd have to go through the whole
procedure once more.

Speaking of magnifiers, a nice powertoy was available in earlier
versions of Windows, a taskbar magnifier; unfortunately it's no more.
Also Foxit has a lovely round magnifier (with a realistic handle!), I
wish someone would duplicate it for Windows too.


emf

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On 2015-05-01 22:19, Stan Brown wrote:
On Fri, 01 May 2015 08:07:53 -0400, emf wrote:

I need a script to perform the following functions:

Open taskbar properties
Check Auto-hide the toolbar
Click Apply
Uncheck Auto-hide the toolbar (to return to previous condition)
Click OK (to close the properties)

I want to have on my desktop a shortcut to the script file so I can
easily perform these actions.

The reason for this that I have the taskbar on the top of the screen,
and when by mistake I open the magnifier, all the maximized windows
extend to the top of the screen under the taskbar, until I perform these
actions or restart windows.

You don't have to restart Windows.

Come on, I've never done since I found the other way.

I have to restart explorer every couple of days when it forgets my
Start Menu shortcut key combinations,

Yes that's another thing. I have assigned keyboard shortcuts to a number
of programs, and sometimes it forgets some of them, but it remembers
them again when I use a keyboard shortcut I know it does not forget and
use it first. Then, of course, I have to close the program I opened to
wake the shortcuts repository up.

The restart is not as convenient as the script you're asking for --
and I don't know a simple way to create that -- but it's a lot better
than restarting Windows.

emf

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On 5/2/2015 12:08 AM, emf wrote:
On 2015-05-01 17:39, Paul wrote:
emf wrote:
I need a script to perform the following functions:

Open taskbar properties
Check Auto-hide the toolbar
Click Apply
Uncheck Auto-hide the toolbar (to return to previous condition)
Click OK (to close the properties)

I want to have on my desktop a shortcut to the script file so I can
easily perform these actions.

The reason for this that I have the taskbar on the top of the screen,
and when by mistake I open the magnifier, all the maximized windows
extend to the top of the screen under the taskbar, until I perform
these actions or restart windows.

Please help!

emf


It sounds like the real request, is to disable the Magnifier.

Occasionally I use the Magnifier (though more often I use OneLoupe
and/or NegativeScreen, programs I've found on the net), so I'd rather
not disable it. Besides the issue arises from time to time only, not
*too* often.

"Richard Wyatt replied on May 26, 2010

I was able stop magnifier from automatically launching
(Via WinKey plus "+" or "-") by renaming magnifier.exe
to magnifier_disabled.exe in the system32 directory.

It took me some time before I identified how I caused the Magnifier to
come up, and it was exactly what is described above; instead of pressing
Ctrl + to magnify a webpage, I'd press WinKey +, which brings up the
Magnifier and increases the magnification. This would be a nice shortcut
if it would work *only* when the Magnifier is already running, *not*
bring it up when it isn't, but I guess that would be even more
complicated to ask.

So I'd prefer a script as I described, or, even better, one that will
also toggle the Magnifier: close it when it's on, or turn it on when it
is closed, and then run the rest of the script in both cases. Such a
script, associated with a keyboard shortcut, would be very useful and
would make me opt to use the magnifier more often, since I wouldn't have
to consider that after using it I'd have to go through the whole
procedure once more.

Speaking of magnifiers, a nice powertoy was available in earlier
versions of Windows, a taskbar magnifier; unfortunately it's no more.
Also Foxit has a lovely round magnifier (with a realistic handle!), I
wish someone would duplicate it for Windows too.


emf

I haven't used it myself, but my friend swears by macromaker.
Just do what you do and it records the clicks and keystrokes as a macro.

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In message
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Zaidy036 writes:
emf wrote:
I need a script to perform the following functions:
[snipped]
Please help!

emf

Www.ptfb.com
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PTFB is a program (Push The Freakin' Button). It is used to automatically
send annoying system (or other) messages packing. I've used it for 12-15
years, it is handy.

It wouldn't help the OP in the slightest.
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Still available at various places including here...
http://www.majorgeeks.com/files/deta...n_button).html

Ah. I use ClickOff (http://www.johanneshuebner.com/en/clickoff.shtml)
for the same purpose - including dismissing nags. Wouldn't help the OP
either (-:
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On 2015-05-02 15:52, Stormin' Norman wrote:
On Sat, 02 May 2015 19:21:29 +0000, Stormin' Norman
wrote:

On Fri, 01 May 2015 08:07:53 -0400, emf wrote:

I need a script to perform the following functions:

Open taskbar properties
Check Auto-hide the toolbar
Click Apply
Uncheck Auto-hide the toolbar (to return to previous condition)
Click OK (to close the properties)

I want to have on my desktop a shortcut to the script file so I can
easily perform these actions.

The reason for this that I have the taskbar on the top of the screen,
and when by mistake I open the magnifier, all the maximized windows
extend to the top of the screen under the taskbar, until I perform these
actions or restart windows.



How about this little gem?

http://www.itsamples.com/taskbar-hider.html

And or this one:

http://www.aviassin.com/taskbareliminator

It seems you have to approve it to run each time you start it. However,
it does not need installation and I like that. I'll give it a try before
looking for a macro recorder. The Taskbar Hider brings on a dialog with
unrelated tasks that I do not need.

emf

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In message
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Zaidy036 writes:
"J. P. Gilliver (John)" wrote:
In message
,
Zaidy036 writes:
emf wrote:
I need a script to perform the following functions:
[snipped]
Please help!

emf

Www.ptfb.com

Not sure if this is an incompetent attempt to be rude and tell the OP to
google, or what? Anyway, I tried following that link, thinking there
might be something interesting about scripting there. I get (in Firefox)
a page with the title (in the title bar) "Ptfb.com: The Best Search Links
on the Net" (which is why I guessed it might be an instruction to use a
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Very sorry - should have been http://ptfbpro.com/

Apologies - I over-reacted, thinking you were one of those people whose
response to almost any question is to tell the poster to use google
(without knowing whether the questioner already had or not) - which you
aren't.
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all about doubt. Otherwise, you go the way of George Bush. - baroness Eliza
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On 2015-05-03 05:54, emf wrote:
On 2015-05-02 15:52, Stormin' Norman wrote:
On Sat, 02 May 2015 19:21:29 +0000, Stormin' Norman

wrote:

On Fri, 01 May 2015 08:07:53 -0400, emf wrote:

I need a script to perform the following functions:

Open taskbar properties
Check Auto-hide the toolbar
Click Apply
Uncheck Auto-hide the toolbar (to return to previous condition)
Click OK (to close the properties)

I want to have on my desktop a shortcut to the script file so I can
easily perform these actions.

The reason for this that I have the taskbar on the top of the screen,
and when by mistake I open the magnifier, all the maximized windows
extend to the top of the screen under the taskbar, until I perform
these
actions or restart windows.



How about this little gem?

http://www.itsamples.com/taskbar-hider.html

And or this one:

http://www.aviassin.com/taskbareliminator

It seems you have to approve it to run each time you start it. However,
it does not need installation and I like that. I'll give it a try before
looking for a macro recorder. The Taskbar Hider brings on a dialog with
unrelated tasks that I do not need.

And you have to approve it if you set it to start with Windows. No good,

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emf wrote:
On 2015-05-02 15:13, Zaidy036 wrote:
"J. P. Gilliver (John)" wrote:
In message ,
Zaidy036 writes:
emf wrote:
I need a script to perform the following functions:
[snipped]


Very sorry - should have been http://ptfbpro.com/

I downloaded it, it is interesting but I can't see how it can help me in what I asked.

emf

If you can do what you want manually then you can make a task in PTFBpro to
do the same job and then run the task from an icon or batch.

I am traveling using an iPad so cannot be more specific than that. I have
used PTFB for years with good results and their support is very helpful.

There are other similar programs that can do the same but which may be
harder to design the task.

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